April 5, 1929 �" March 10, 2010
Conrad LeRoy Gilmore was born April 5, 1929 in Milford, Nebraska and raised in an orphanage in Lincoln, Nebraska. He went to Kansas City, Missouri as a school teacher at the age of twenty. Then moved to Alameda, California at the age of twenty-two after being identified as a gay man and fired from his teaching position. He lived with partner Vernon Johnston in Albany California for seven years and came to San Francisco in 1960 when they separated. There he joined The Mattachine Society through Hal Call, a friend from Kansas City.
He worked as a volunteer on the Education Referral Hotline at the San Francisco AIDS Foundation. He was active in the Society for Individual Rights and worked in the Municipal Court of the city and county of San Francisco. In recovery for 28 years through faithful attendance and service to twelve step programs, Conrad started one of the first twelve-step programs in the country for gays which met at The Rose Garden on Friday nights.